Public IPv6 Address

[Drewster727]

I'm happy to see the public IP address making it's way into these releases (especially in the export for v2.8).
However, I have an external ipv6 AND ipv4 address. Can we show both of these or allow us to choose which one displayed and exported?

• Glances (glances -V): 2.7
• PSutil (glances -V): 5.0.0
• Operating System (lsb_release -a): Ubuntu Server 14.04 / 16.04

Thanks!

[nicolargo]

Glances uses online services to grab the external IP address:

urls = [('http://ip.42.pl/raw', False, None),
        ('http://httpbin.org/ip', True, 'origin'),
        ('http://jsonip.com', True, 'ip'),
        ('https://api.ipify.org/?format=json', True, 'ip')]

Can you try this on your system and check if one of them return the IPv6 address ?

[Drewster727]

Sure, here are the results:

• http://ip.42.pl/raw -- IPv4
• http://httpbin.org/ip -- IPv4
• http://jsonip.com -- IPv6
• https://api.ipify.org/?format=json -- IPv4

Looks like jsonip is the only one returning IPv6.

[nicolargo]

Can you copy/paste the result of the http://jsonip.com/ site ?

[Drewster727]

{ "ip": "2705:b601:403:1401:80z3:8cx6:de6a:x42x", "about": "/about", "Pro!": "http://getjsonip.com" }

Here ya go, masked the address a bit tho :)

[nicolargo]

Ok i will have a look but for the moment Glances use the first (fastest) public IP address returned by one of the online services. I can add a tag (and an option in the configuration file) to force the use of jsonip but if the service is not available, no public IP addresses will be displayed...

[Drewster727]

Perhaps a config option to only display ipv4? You can regex check the reply of each, and if you don't get a match, you don't return a value.

I imagine this will become a more and more relevant issue as public ipv6 addresses become more common.

Thanks!